The Experience of Temporality by a Group of Asian and Caucasian Diabetic Patients

Meetoo, Danny
(2004)
The Experience of Temporality by a Group of Asian and Caucasian Diabetic Patients.
In:
Narrative, Memory & Identity: Theoretical and Methodological Issues.
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, pp. 95-103.

Abstract

This contentious paper aims to explore the experience of time by individualswho have been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus. It further argues that thetemporal processes form central to the diabetic experience and it proceeds todepict the arenas in which time is transformed by virtue of diabetes. Finally, itis proposed that understanding the person as a whole being is necessary if selfmanagementof diabetes is to be successful.

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